The crowds in St Peter's square celebrate as they see the white smoke billow from the chimney above the Sistine chapel. As is customary, the identity of the new pope was not immediately made known. And the crowd in St Peter's Square waits expectantly for him to appear on the huge balcony that runs across the front of St Peter's basilica.

The fumata bianca – the white smoke signal that marks the successful conclusion of a papal conclave – arrived after five ballots on the second day of voting. The smoke that poured out of the comignolo, the copper and steel chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, was greeted with cries of delight and applause from the crowd below